FARGO — As March marks Brain Injury Awareness Month, doctors at Sanford Health are stressing the seriousness of concussions. While most concussions result from sports, they can happen to anyone. A concussion is a type of traumatic brain injury that occurs when a fall or hit to the head causes the brain to move rapidly back and forth.
Common symptoms include headaches, blurry vision, and nausea. Most people recover within four weeks, but repeated concussions can lead to long-term issues, such as chronic headaches, short-term memory problems, and brain fog. “There’s not a specific number of concussions, it doesn’t happen when you get your third concussion or it doesn’t happen when you get your tenth concussion, it’s different for every person,” said Dr.
Drew Glogoza, a sports medicine physician at Sanford Health. Doctors recommend wearing helmets during contact sports and activities like biking and skiing to reduce the risk of concussions. “It’s something that you really do need to take serious.
I mean, I always say this, we just have one brain and there’s really not a lot of going backwards for our brain,” Glogoza said..